The Pandex of the Press, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from The Pandex of the Press, Vol. 2: July-December, 1905The psychological moment for turning back to the old rut passed when the Quaker City, so recently made notorious by the Steffens epithet of corrupt and contented, besieged the City Council and hooted and shamed the bribe-takers from their nefarious purposes. The entire nation responded to this with a quickening applause and a. Pledge of unprecedented fellowship. The incident was recognized in New York as the tolling of a new liberty bell and throughout America was hailed as a logical and almost all-too-welcome advance beyond the previous declaration of industrial independence made in Kansas.The strength of the Philadelphia fight had been that its real sponsors were like the real sponsors of Amalgamated, the best men of the community. When even the power of such as these was thus overmatched by the force of public indignation, it was realized that the personal, as. Well as the objective, equation of modern social administration had been solved. Regardless of who they were, the sponsors were driven under the yoke of the municipality and its mayor. Once for all predominant individual interests were made subordinate to the common good.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.